ANMELDEN[The Crown of Thorns]
The transition from the Sanguine Winter to the first breath of spring was not a softening of the world, but a sharpening. As the ice retreated from the Amalfi cliffs, it revealed the jagged, unforgiving bone of the earth beneath. For Dante and Ivy, the thaw was not an opening of doors—it was the sharpening of the blade.
Inside the basalt mansion, the atmosphere had
[The Judas Key]The drive from the basalt sanctuary into the heart of the city was a descent into a labyrinth of light and glass. Rain slicked the asphalt, turning the streets into a shimmering, oil-stained mirror that reflected the neon advertisements of the St. Claire subsidiaries. To the world, the city was thriving; to Dante and Ivy, it was a hollowed-out carcass waiting for the final incision.Inside the rear of the armored transport, the atmosphere was thick, almost pressurized. Dante sat in the shadows of the plush leather seat, his posture relaxed but radiating a quiet, lethality. He was checking the feed on a handheld slate—a cascade of scrolling green code that represented the St. Claire’s internal firewall. Beside him, Ivy was a vision of severe elegance in a charcoal-colored suit, her eyes fixed on the blurring city lights.
[The Crown of Thorns]The transition from the Sanguine Winter to the first breath of spring was not a softening of the world, but a sharpening. As the ice retreated from the Amalfi cliffs, it revealed the jagged, unforgiving bone of the earth beneath. For Dante and Ivy, the thaw was not an opening of doors—it was the sharpening of the blade.Inside the basalt mansion, the atmosphere had shifted from the warmth of a refuge to the pressurized silence of a war room. The "Obsidian Covenant" was no longer just a vow of the flesh; it had become the blueprint for a systematic assassination of a legacy.Dante sat at the head of the obsidian table in the grand dining hall, though no food was served. Before him lay a series of physical ledgers—the only records the Trust couldn't touch with a digital pulse. He was a study in lethal stil
[The Obsidian Covenant]The final layer of the world fell away at midnight.Outside the basalt walls, the Amalfi coast had vanished beneath a shroud of violet-shadowed snow, the sea below a churning cauldron of black ink. But inside the master wing of the Moretti estate, time had ceased to be linear. The air was a heavy, intoxicating blend of woodsmoke, expensive wine, and the raw, electric charge of the "Sync" reaching its zenith.Dante did not just occupy the room; he owned the very molecules within it. He stood by the arched window, his silhouette a jagged tear in the fabric of the dark. He had shed his coat, his white shirt unbuttoned to the mid-chest, revealing the faint, silvered lines of scars that Ivy had mapped with her lips. He wasn't looking at the storm. He was looking at the reflection of the bed in the glas
[The Sanguine Winter]The winter that descended upon the Amalfi coast was not white; it was a bruised, heavy purple, a season of salt-spray and iron skies that seemed to lock the basalt mansion in a crystalline grip. The Adriatic groaned against the cliffs, but within the walls of the estate, the world had shrunk to the diameter of a single, candle-lit room and the shared heat of two bodies that refused to acknowledge the existence of a world beyond their own.Dante Moretti sat in the high-backed chair of his study, the embers of the hearth casting long, flickering shadows across his face. He was the picture of a dangerously calm regency. He did not check the monitors. He did not pace. He simply sat, a glass of dark wine untouched beside him, his obsidian eyes fixed on the doorway where Ivy stood.He was not waiting for her; he was summo
[The Alpine Exit]The Zero Point did not die with a scream; it died with a suffocating, mechanical rattle. As the "Source" data dissolved into digital ash, the tower’s primary cooling systems cycled into an emergency stasis. The air, already thin, grew frigid, carrying the scent of frost and ozone. The crimson emergency lighting bathed the corridors in a visceral, sanguine glow, turning the brutalist concrete into the interior of a dying god.Dante did not run. He walked through the flickering shadows with a heavy, rhythmic grace, his hand anchored firmly on the small of Ivy’s back. This was the Architect’s pace—measured, inevitable, and utterly devoid of panic. He didn't need to see the exit to know where it was; he felt the building’s skeletal structure in his very bones."They are sealing
[The Zero Point Entry]The transition from the basalt sanctuary to the heart of the Zero Point was not a journey across distance, but a descent through layers of institutional cold.The Zero Point was the Trust’s original nervous system—a brutalist spire of reinforced concrete and obsidian glass buried into the bedrock of the Swiss Alps. It did not hum; it throbbed with the silent, pressurized weight of data and blood. The air here was recycled to the point of sterility, smelling of nothing but chilled metal and the dry, paper-scent of a thousand-year plan.Dante and Ivy did not enter as intruders. They entered as ghosts returning to the machine that had failed to kill them.Dante walked with a lethality that was terrifying in its stillness. He wore a suit of midnight wool, his co







